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I'll take it a bit easy for the next issue and do the Gallery, as I want commit my time to creating a few more mainspace articles, as my two previous pieces consumed all of my 'Wikipedia-time'. The Trump piece was last-minute because I wasn't anticipating an assassination attempt, and the Twitter one was rushed since the move was relisted, and I wanted to use that headline. Svampesky (talk) 13:24, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
On the AI image article[edit]I think this one is a cell that the AI gave its own personalised red tumour. That's... just not how cells grow. Or how cancer looks. Cancer cells don't have their own tiny tumours, for easy identification. As far as I can tell, this is based on images of cancer cells with an immune system cell attacking them (which would be the red thing - except that got turned into a tumor on the cell, because T-cells... well, just look up T-cells attacking cancer on Google images. You'll see: They just do not look like that). This tumour-on-a-cell was in a freaking article! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 10:12, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
The section titled AI-generated images on Wikipedia articles in non-AI contexts mentions that "policies vary between different language versions of Wikipedia." However, I believe this section misrepresents the policies of several wikis, as many of them rely on Wikidata to automatically display images. These changes occur outside of local projects, so editors often don't notice them. For instance, on Arabic Wikipedia, the image for "Dystopia" was promptly removed once I became aware of it. - Anwon (talk) 23:46, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
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This might be worth a mention [1]. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 17:42, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Zionism[edit]Just wanted to flag he rewrite of the Zionism article is creating a bunch of angry emails to VRT. Probable due to articles such as https://www.jns.org/wikipedia-defines-zionism-as-colonialism-sparking-outrage/. I think it is worth a mentionsomewhere this upcoming publication. --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 21:26, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
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Henna Virkkunen set to serve in the EU Commission[edit]Hello! Sorry for this very belated message, but I just wanted to let you know that Finnish MEP Henna Virkkunen is officially the candidate to serve as the Executive Vice-President for Tech-Sovereignty, Security and Democracy in the upcoming European Commission. I think this might be interesting for us, considering that Virkkunen followed the development of the Digital Services Act for the EPP. It should be noted, though, that her appointment is still subject to official hearings and approval by the European Parliament. Do you think it would be worth it to squeeze a brief blurb in the N&N section (also considering there are three lead stories already), or should we wait until she finally gets the green light? I'm tagging Jayen466 and HaeB, since they previously wrote about the DSA. Oltrepier (talk) 09:47, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
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I wanted to clarify that this column is already reserved. I've reached out to an editor to write for it, and I'll wait for them to submit it, if they choose to do so. It's unrelated to the Kolkata discussion. Svampesky (talk) 20:32, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
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As usual, we are preparing this regular survey on recent academic research about Wikipedia, doubling as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter (now in its fourteenth year). Help is welcome to review or summarize the many interesting items listed here, as are suggestions of other new research papers that haven't been covered yet. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:33, 15 September 2024 (UTC) |
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@Igordebraga Is it OK if I expand the write-ups for Linkin Park myself? I feel like the controversy currently surrounding the band also played a part in boosting pageviews for them and Armstrong, so I wanted to address that, as well. Oltrepier (talk) 11:49, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Expansion[edit]This is not a criticism, just pointing it out so the Signposters are aware. There has been what I'd call noticeable expansion of the draft Traffic report, such that our published version really doesn't match the TOP25 report. The addition in that one edit was almost 10% of the original size of the Traffic report – maybe to the point where the Signpost editor should be added to the byline. We don't usually work it this way, so I'm bringing it up in case it needs discussion. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Political concern[edit]This column has had trouble in the past IMHO concerning political views, but I usually let it slide. This time I think there's a real problem that could call The Signpost into question as a source of disinformation. The blurb for the Democrat U.S. presidential candidate includes the statement below:
The first claim was debunked almost as soon as it was spoken. The problem for us is that the second half of the sentence, lumped in with the first as if it were equally absurd, is taken by many to reflect the opponent's true characterization of her position in the record. This fact is even elaborated in the last sentence at the section Political positions of Kamala Harris#Immigration, including sourcing to CNN. Just for context, here is Susan Glasser being fact checked on equating the veracity of precisely these two statements made in the debate. We should carefully consider how we may appear to take sides in this. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:06, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
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Per the WMF statement: I'm not creating the page because there is currently not a consensus that the community will respond in this way. I also don't want to imply that there's a rush to close the discussion, so the header of this section can be changed to
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